skii; Alien \. - TURUPT1 \N \. 173 



towards base ; abdomen pale crimson at base, then orange-yellow 

 with subdorsal scries of black bands; pectus and femora crimson, 

 the tibia? and tarsi black ; ventral surface of abdomen orange witb 

 lateral series of black spots. Fore wing pale rufous very thickly 

 striated with red-brown ; an oblique blackish antemedial line 

 arising below the costa and conjoined at inner margin to an 

 obscure medial line arising at vein 2; a black discoidal spot; 

 a blackish post medial line, exeurved below costa, then oblique. 

 Hind wing white ; a slight pinkish tinge at base of inner margin ; 

 a minute black discoidal spot. Underside of fore wing fulvous, tin' 

 terminal area striated with rufous, the cell and costal area to 

 beyond middle crimson ; hind wing with the costal area pale 

 crimson. 



$> . Head and fore wing paler rufous, the *latter with the lines 

 almost obsolete ; bind wing pale crimson with black discoidal spots. 



TIab. "GE'.nr. E. Africa," Itumba Distr. (G. Wood), 1 d" type, 

 Mpwapwa $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp., d 42, $ 52 millim. ' 



1990 e. Seirarctia jacsoni. 



Seirarctia jacksoni, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 176 (1910), & xviii. pi. 3. 

 if. 8, 9. 



c? . Head and thorax red-brown mixed witb fuscous; antenna' 

 whitish ; femora pinkish above ; abdomen yellow with subdorsal 

 series of blackish bars and lateral series of black spots, the ventral 

 surface tinged with red-brown. Fore wing red-brown irrorated 

 with fuscous; a diffused blackish antemedial line, oblique from 

 costa to just below the cell when it is angled, some diffused Mack 

 beyond it on inner margin to the obscure black medial line which is 

 oblique to median nervure, then inwardly oblique; a black spot on 

 upper discocellular ; postmedial line blackish, exeurved from below 

 costa to vein 4<, then oblique; an obscure diffused blackish sub- 

 terminal line with black spot at discal fold. Hind wing yellowish 

 tinged with brown : a black discoidal spot and slight fuscous 

 subterminal spots at discal fold and below vein 2. 



$. Abdomen orange-yellow with subdorsal series of black 

 patches; fore wing redder; hind wing ochreous yellow witb slight 

 black discoidal lunule. 



Hah. Br. K. AriMi'A, Nairobi (Anderson, Lamhom), 2 <$ , 1 £> 

 (Jackson), type f tf , $ in Coll. Rothschild. A\rj>., J 40, 

 , 1-8 millim. 



Page 424. Genus DIONYCHOPUS, insert:— 



Type. 

 Muny< h ia, Wllgrn. GSfv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. xv. p. 213 (1858) 



*1993«. Turuptiana affinis. (Plate LXIV. fig. 25.) 

 Turuptidna affinis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvi. p. 296 (1909). 



'. Head white, the "palpi, sides of frons, and antennae black - 

 brown; thorax black-brown with white patches on patagia : pectus 



